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Thanks Eric. I am playing with this. I had some similar ideas tonight -- including making a forceful case that, "look, 700 licenses were issued without auction and only 5 or them went to Burisma -- less than 1 percent! -- and all of that happened years and years before Hunter came on the scene. That's not what's important or relevant. What matters is this: there is no future for Ukraine without energy security and there is no future for Ukraine without reform and an end to corruption. That's the equation Hunter entered Burisma to help solve -- to help tackle energy security for Ukraine so Putin can't hold the country hostage to his ability to just turn off the spigot, and to improving corporate governance in an industry sorely in need of it, in a country that was once the Wild West. That's why other American business leaders like ____ got involved and that's why former Polish President _____ got involved. Period. Let's focus on what Hunter has done not on what happened in some cases decades ago."

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> On Oct 16, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Eric Schwerin <eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com> wrote:
>
> Think about this over the weekend but what about in response to the
> questions regarding the Amb's comments and whether there is a conflict
> of interest with Hunter's role on the Board vis a vis the VP's policy
> role we say on background something like (admittedly an aggressive
> approach):
>
> Obviously Hunter's presence on the Board hasn't had an effect on the
> US Government's ability to stridently call for a crack down on
> corruption as you can see from the Ambassador's comments and Hunter
> would want it no other way.
>
> Hunter has the utmost respect for Ambassador Pyatt and his efforts to
> weed out corruption in Ukraine. In fact, one of the main reasons
> Hunter joined the Burisma Board was to help a prominent Ukrainian
> company gain access to experts in U.S. best practices in corporate
> governance so that Burisma could serve as a model for other Ukrainian
> companies.
>
> Hunter welcomes the scrutiny towards Burisma and its shareholders and
> is confident that they have operated in accordance with Ukrainian law.
>
>
> Eric D. Schwerin
> eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
>
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